Let go out to the movies
I say to myself, "I'm not going to see anyone I know. It'll be dark so who cares what I look like. I'm not going to get all fancied up for nothing." So I go in jeans and a t-shirt, no makeup, and my hair just as it fell after a shower. While Jon and I are sitting in the theater giggling about something stupid - like always - up comes a group of people I know and they sit right next to us. Then after the movie I try to sneak away as quickly as possible so that no one can see just how dumpy I look.
That's two movies in a row that this exact scenario has played out. The theater is just up the street from me so it's no big deal just to go out as a last minute decision, but before I moved here it took hours of planning. Of course I'd never run into anyone I knew all those other times. Funny how that works.
We saw Star Trek tonight and it really did live up to all the hype. There wasn't a dull moment in the movie. J. J. Abrams has worked his magic again. I can't say I was a fan of Star Trek before I saw this movie - I was a Star Wars girl - but this movie has made me think differently about Star Trek and I kind of really like it now.
The scariest thing about the movie to me was when I saw the gigantic structures on the horizon at the beginning of the movie. They reminded me so much of the dreams I've had of a future world, I guess not much different from the world portrayed in the Star Trek universe. Those are the dreams where space flight is central but I'm always on Earth watching giant ships battle in the sky, or standing next to launch pads that dwarf the launch pads that exist today...larger than skyscrapers. The dreams are always so vivid they make me wish to see a day when such things exist, but they also scare me at the same time. On day I'd love to illustrate what I dream. It's just that the structures are so technical I don't know if I could do it. I'll try to take notes next time I go there.
Next movie of awesome: Terminator
Can't wait! Maybe I'll even get fancied up. Who knows.
That's two movies in a row that this exact scenario has played out. The theater is just up the street from me so it's no big deal just to go out as a last minute decision, but before I moved here it took hours of planning. Of course I'd never run into anyone I knew all those other times. Funny how that works.
We saw Star Trek tonight and it really did live up to all the hype. There wasn't a dull moment in the movie. J. J. Abrams has worked his magic again. I can't say I was a fan of Star Trek before I saw this movie - I was a Star Wars girl - but this movie has made me think differently about Star Trek and I kind of really like it now.
The scariest thing about the movie to me was when I saw the gigantic structures on the horizon at the beginning of the movie. They reminded me so much of the dreams I've had of a future world, I guess not much different from the world portrayed in the Star Trek universe. Those are the dreams where space flight is central but I'm always on Earth watching giant ships battle in the sky, or standing next to launch pads that dwarf the launch pads that exist today...larger than skyscrapers. The dreams are always so vivid they make me wish to see a day when such things exist, but they also scare me at the same time. On day I'd love to illustrate what I dream. It's just that the structures are so technical I don't know if I could do it. I'll try to take notes next time I go there.
Next movie of awesome: Terminator
Can't wait! Maybe I'll even get fancied up. Who knows.